Porto Alegre Junior Championships

The Porto Alegre Junior Championships (Portuguese: Campeonato Internacional Juvenil de Tênis de Porto Alegre), also known as the Copa Gerdau, is a prestigious junior tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The tournament is held annually in late February or early March. It is one of five Grade A tournaments, the junior equivalent of ATP Masters or WTA Premier Mandatory events in terms of rankings points allocated.

Porto Alegre Junior Championships
Tournament information
Founded1978 (Copa Gerdau in 1984)
LocationPorto Alegre
Brazil
VenueAssociação Leopoldina Juvenil and Sogipa
CategoryITF Junior Grade A (2007–current)
SurfaceRed clay – outdoors
Draw64S / 64Q / 32D (Boys)
64S / 48Q / 32D (Girls)
Websitewww.campeonatointernacional.com.br
Current champions (2018)
SinglesArgentina Sebastián Báez (Boys)
Canada Leylah Annie Fernandez (Girls)
DoublesArgentina Sebastián Báez (Boys)
France Clément Tabur
Denmark Clara Tauson (Girls)
Russia Anastasia Tikhonova

History edit

The Copa Gerdau was founded in 1984, and has hosted international players since 1987. It has been a Grade A event since 2007. Before this event was promoted to Grade A, Brazil's Banana Bowl tournament had held that distinction since 1998. The original venue for the Grade A tournament was the International Championships of Venezuela, which was founded in 1978 and held in Caracas.[1]

Singles champions edit

Year Boys Girls
International Championships of Venezuela
1978   Alejandro Ganzábal   Claudia Casabianca
1979   Raúl Viver   Cláudia Monteiro
1980   Roberto Argüello   Graciela Perez
1981   Eduardo Oncins   Helena Suková
1982   Martín Jaite   Helena Olsson
1983   Bill Stanley   Silvana Campos
1984   Thomas Muster   Silvana Campos
1985   Franco Davín   Patricia Tarabini
1986   Gilbert Schaller   Gisele Miró
1987   Alejandro Aramburú   Tanja Weigl
1988   Nicolás Pereira   Patricia Miller
1989   Aki Rahunen   Florencia Labat
1990   Pavel Gazda   Radka Bobková
1991   Juan Garat   Eugenia Maia
1992   Gabriel Silberstein   Cătălina Cristea
1993   Răzvan Sabău   Nino Louarsabishvili
1994   Gustavo Kuerten   Henrieta Nagyová
1995   Tomáš Čatár   Aleksandra Olsza
1996   Rodolfo Rake   Jessica Lehnhoff
1997   Julien Jeanpierre   Melissa Middleton
Banana Bowl
1998   Fernando González   Erica Krauth
1999   Paul-Henri Mathieu   Anikó Kapros
2000   Andy Roddick   María Emilia Salerni
2001   Gilles Müller   Svetlana Kuznetsova
2002   Marcos Baghdatis   Myriam Casanova
2003   David Brewer   Alisa Kleybanova
2004   Eduardo Schwank   Alisa Kleybanova
2005   Leonardo Mayer   Sharon Fichman
2006   Albert Ramos Viñolas   Alizé Cornet
Copa Gerdau
2007   Uladzimir Ignatic   Cindy Chala
2008   José Pereira   Elena Bogdan
2009   José Pereira   Silvia Njirić
2010   Mathias Bourgue   Monica Puig
2011   Thiago Monteiro   Eugenie Bouchard
2012   Mathias Bourgue   Anna Danilina
2013   Gianluigi Quinzi   Varvara Flink
2014   Orlando Luz   Jil Teichmann
2015   Orlando Luz   Usue Maitane Arconada
2016   Yosuke Watanuki   Usue Maitane Arconada
2017   Trent Bryde   Amanda Anisimova
2018   Sebastián Báez   Leylah Annie Fernandez
2019   Thiago Agustín Tirante   Ane Mintegi del Olmo
2020   Li Hanwen   Elvina Kalieva
2021   Shang Juncheng   Océane Babel
2022   Nishesh Basavareddy   Lucie Havlíčková
2023   Yaroslav Demin   Mayu Crossley

Doubles champions edit

Year Boys Girls
1998   Tomáš Cakl
  Jiří Vrbka
  Clarisa Fernández
  María Emilia Salerni
1999   José de Armas
  Daniel Langre
  Eugenia Chialvo
  Erica Krauth
2000   Lee Childs
  James Nelson
  Eugenia Chialvo
  María Emilia Salerni
2001   Alejandro Falla
  Carlos Salamanca
  Petra Cetkovská
  Barbora Strýcová
2002   Fred Gil
  Leonardo Tavares
  Myriam Casanova
  Elke Clijsters
2003   Fred Gil
  Chris Kwon
  Larissa Carvalho
  Soledad Esperón
2004   Lukáš Lacko
  Peter Miklušičák
  Alisa Kleybanova
  Irina Kotkina
2005   Piero Luisi
  David Navarrete
  Bianca Ioana Bonifate
  Sharon Fichman
2006   Jamie Hunt
  Nathaniel Schnugg
  Klaudia Boczová
  Kristína Kučová
Copa Gerdau
2007   Daniel Cox
  David Rice
  Tatiana Búa
  Roxane Vaisemberg
2008   Axel Michon
  Guillaume Rufin
  Kristina Mladenovic
  Maryna Zanevska
2009   Patrik Brydolf
  Tristan-Samuel Weissborn
  Kristina Mladenovic
  Silvia Njirić
2010   Filip Horanský
  Jozef Kovalík
  Jana Čepelová
  Vivien Juhászová
2011   Marco Aurelio Núñez
  Kaichi Uchida
  Doménica González
  Montserrat González
2012   Luke Bambridge
  Joshua Ward-Hibbert
  Anna Danilina
  Zuzanna Maciejewska
2013   Orlando Luz
  Marcelo Zormann
  Alejandra Cisneros
  Victoria Rodríguez
2014   Quentin Halys
  Johan Tatlot
  Priscilla Hon
  Jil Teichmann
2015   Felipe Cunha e Silva
  Alejandro Tabilo
  Francesca Di Lorenzo
  Luisa Stefani
2016   Brian Cernoch
  Vasil Kirkov
  Panna Udvardy
  Dayana Yastremska
2017   Alafia Ayeni
  Trent Bryde
  María José Portillo Ramírez
  Sofia Sewing
2018   Sebastián Báez
  Clément Tabur
  Clara Tauson
  Anastasia Tikhonova
2019   Shunsuke Mitsui
  Keisuke Saitoh
  Natsumi Kawaguchi
  Shavit Kimchi
2020   Luciano Darderi
  Gustavo Heide
  Ana Geller
  Guillermina Grant
2021   Alexander Bernard
  Dali Blanch
  Kira Pavlova
  Diana Shnaider
2022   Aidan Kim
  Cooper Williams
  Irina Balus
  Nikola Daubnerová
2023   Federico Cina
  Rei Sakamoto
  Francesca Gandolfi
  Greta Greco Lucchina

References edit

  1. ^ "Porto Alegre Junior Championships". ITF Tennis. Retrieved 31 May 2018.

External links edit